I am an admin in a server and while the minecraft.net webpage was down for me, i couldn't join our server, but when i F5'd it a few minutes later[10 or so] and it loaded i could connect to the server..
I thought Server's we're dedicated/etc and had no link to the minecraft.net site...? What's the connection?
For server protection MineCraft (Unless you disable it in configuration) will attempt to authenticate the user with their server so no one can play with a cracked version on your server. So if MineCraft.net is down, then your down unless you either disable the authentication or use a plugin that supports server side login storage.
I thought Server's we're dedicated/etc and had no link to the minecraft.net site...? What's the connection?